Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in Context
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in context. In this video I discuss some of the sources used by Shakespeare and how these can be linked to Edward de Vere 17th Earl of Oxford. We also discuss how characters, events and even objects in the play might allude to real people, real events and real objects. Perfumed gloves famously gifted to Queen Elizabeth I are mentioned. Fashions of the time are admired and frowned upon. The watchmen like ones employed by Queen Elizabeth watch out for fashion misdemeanours, while an old tapestry of Hercules dressed in in the fashion of the15th Century gives a clue to Shakespeare's identity.
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Great work!
How interesting....i have mused on this possible scenario, Cervantes picking up stories while a miserable prisoner could hardly have contained himself if de Veres pompous challenge crossed his ears! The dates, the timing, the proximity of Algiers-Messina- Palermo, the personal connections with the Palermo viceroy Sessa, Don John etc all make it a deliciously inviting proposition........and all this time, the lovable Don Quixote turns out to be..... the bard himself!
Great work. I very much enjoyed it. Edward De Vere was Shake-Speare , people need to get over it. Also, Looney was a genius for figuring it out & inventing "profiling"
Thanks for another excellent video. Despite some of the glitches, I was able to follow the argument fairly easily.
You might be interested to know that Sonnet 116 and 117 appear to be about de Vere's attempts to restore his wife Anne's virtue among the members of the Court. Sonnet 116, the famous one which begins "Let not the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments..." seems to be de Vere's opening statement (he uses the word brief in line 11 as a clue). The final couplet is a fabulous "mic drop" pair of lines: "If this be error and upon me proved / I never wrote nor no man ever loved."
Sonnet 117 is his appeal where he challenges his wife to prove he has not done her any wrong: "Accuse me thus..." is how the poem begins and it ends with: "Since my appeal says I did strive to prove / The constancy and virtue of thy love."
Since we can date Much Ado About Nothing to around the time he was reconciled with Anne as you state, these two sonnets must date from the same period: around December 1581 or perhaps early in 1582.
Once the sonnets can be mapped to de Vere's life (a project I am working on), the authorship issue will have been largely settled among thinking people. Until then it is an uphill battle for which your series of videos make impressive ammunition.
Thank you for your kind comments, I haven't really got in to the sonnets yet, still have quite a few plays to cover first. I really do think that there has been a shift in attitude in the last few years. It is not necessarily amongst the scholars, but the ordinary thinking people in the street. Very soon we will have the weight of public opinion on our side, the uphill battle will turn into a landslide.
@@ContextShakespeare1740 You're welcome. As usual, your voice is pleasant to listen to. I am with you in that sometimes Italian names are difficult to pronounce: you have to get the "ac-CENT on the right Sil-LA-ble" as my late uncle used to say.
Sonnet 116 contains this anagram:
O no it is an ever fixed marke = I am Oxford Seventeen i ARK i
( "I ark I" is the ark of the covenant inside the temple. The ark contains the Torah, which is an "ever fixed marke")
The final two lines could refer back to one of the anagram solutions for Never Before Imprinted. The primary solution is "Be In Print For M. E De Vere", but there are many secondary solutions. The final lines of Sonnet 116 seem to refer to one of the solutions.
Never Before Imprinted = Proved: Men err, be finite
'If this be error and upon me proved" > Proved: Men err, be finite
@@vetstadiumastroturf5756 Thanks for the comment. You seem to be good at anagrams, which I sadly am not.
I hesitate to find anagrams in texts of the period, though I know they exist since so many researchers have discovered Baconian anagrams in the writing by Shakespeare which do not follow common rules. Some of them skip words or lines ijn order to create their "evidence" Bacon wrote the canon, but because they break those rules, I believe they might not exist and are products of over-active imaginations. If, however, anagrams seem to occur on single lines or in phrases as you have found, the chances they are intentional rises, especially if they make grammatical sense without leaving any letters out or if they do not require adding them to the solutions. My understanding of anagrams is that they must use every letter and not require adding letters..